A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder Thursday after Ceres police found a man shot to death inside a room at the Howard Johnson Inn, authorities said.
Officers were called about 10:48 a.m. to the motel at 1672 Herndon Road after an employee reported an unresponsive man and a handgun in the room, according to Ceres Police Department. Responding officers discovered the man, who had a single gunshot wound. Modesto Fire Department personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.
While detectives worked the scene, other Ceres officers were following up on a separate domestic-violence report near Mitchell and Finch roads in Modesto. Police said a woman flagged down firefighters, identified herself as a victim of abuse and said the assault may have occurred in Ceres. When officers contacted her and asked if the incidents were related, she sped off in a vehicle with an unrestrained child…